Hm, that's a tough case. I can understand your frustration and I would totally be making the same post if someone expropriated my community like that. Seeing it from a distant third person perspective, I can recognize that the admin however acted based on their truly held beliefs that the act promoted is akin to animal abuse (regardless of how feasible food supplements are, as they clarified later). So if one has such a strongly-held belief, it is understandable that they would take direct action like that.

That said, I think the admin is beholden to act less rashly in a decision around a conflict that ultimately doesn't have an immediate/urgent impact on anyone. They could have contacted the mods and explained their values do not match lemmy.world ones and arranged for a graceful community migration, rather than a hostile takeover.

Bad showing from the l.w admins, they were power trippin'.

Thanks for sharing

Good for the admin for not taking their shit. The mods are perpetual victims who then turn around and do some egregious bullshit by abusing sidebar rules. I've seen their mod logs and those fuckers ban anyone and delete anything on a whim.

I encourage everyone to check the mod logs. On one hand a carnist stating nonsense. On the other someone calmly explaining how synthetic taurine is widely used and modern evidence suggests cats can transition to properly formulated vegan food, while acknowledging that many bad formulations exist and that a whole food diet would kill them.

Unfortunately for the toxo brained admin who is definitely on the side of animals while claiming you can own them. This is unacceptable!